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Kuhn is building the new organ for Tonhalle Zürich

14. June 2017

We are very pleased that we have been chosen to build the new organ in the Tonhalle. It will have 70 stops and will be finished in summer 2020.

New organ portraits

06. June 2017

CH-Meggen, Sunneziel

NO-Melhus

AT-Wilhering, Zisterzienserstift

AT-Linz, Alter Dom

Organ concert at the KunstKlangKirche in Zurich – 04.03.2017

04. March 2017

The organist Christoph Grohmann performed pieces "from church to salon" on our historic German-Romantic cone chest organ from 1889.

Second New Year card designed by Maya Bringolf

24. December 2016

Durch den Wind (Through the Wind), sound sculpture 2012

For the fourth series of New Year cards we have chosen an artist from Zurich whom we have come to know and appreciate through her work with organ pipes.

The historic cone chest organ from Zurich Unterstrass (1889) comes back to Zurich. Prof. Ludger Lohmann inaugurates the instrument on Friday 9th September 2016 in the "KunstKlangKirche Zurich" (Reformed church "Auf der Egg" Wollishofen). Beginning 7:30 p.m.
Organ portrait
KunstKlangKirche Zürich

Organ study trip to Germany and Switzerland

17. February 2016

18.11.2015: Oberharmersbach, Welschensteinach, Alpirsbach
19.11.2015: St. Gallen, St. Margrethen

The fascination of organ building

12. January 2016

When we humans are fascinated by something we are held captive, continually facing new challenges. In this respect organ building is inexhaustible, because we work in borderlands. Depending on our viwpoint, musical, technical or architectural aspects or the history of art may dominate our involvement.

First New Year card designed by Maya Bringolf

24. December 2015

Bohrorgel 1 ("Drilling organ 2"), 2015 Digital Collage

For the fourth series of New Year cards we have chosen an artist from Zurich whom we have come to know and appreciate through her work with organ pipes.

Third New Year card designed by Ursula Gerber

19. December 2014

«Organ sonata 3st movement - Adagio misterioso» Fine Art Print on Plexiglas

In her third and last work, Ursula Gerber combines further sculptures from her "Nomades" series with what now clearly reveal themselves to be organ pipes. Only when the observer takes a second look do the complexity and depth of the work reveal themselves.

Report on the organ in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim

20. October 2014

In the ISO journal no. 47-2014 an article on the restored Steinmeyer organ in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim was published, written by Dr. Markus Zimmermann.

"Die Orgelbauer - Das Buch zur Geschichte von Orgelbau Kuhn 1864-2014"

08. September 2014

The book celebrating the 150 year jubilee of Kuhn Organ Builders will be available from October 23rd 2014. Authors: Friedrich Jakob and Michael Meyer.

"Exsultate, jubilate" — 150 years Kuhn Organ Builders

02. May 2014

Kuhn Organ Builders will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of its foundation under the title of the happy motet composed by the 16 year old Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. It expresses our still youthful enthusiasm for organ building, organ music and the intense experiences which the "king of all instruments" (Mozart) bestows on mankind.

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